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sTaTss PATENT otros OLIVER F. GROVER, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

PRINTERS COMPOSING-STICK.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 15,358, dated July 15, 1856.

To @ZZ 'whom/t may concern:

lBe it known that I, OLIVER F. GROVER, of Middletown, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement on Printers Composing-Sticks; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this spec-ification, in which- FigureI is a face View; Fig. II a side View showing the back of the slide andside of the clasp; Fig. III a view of the end of the slide with claspraised; Fig. IV a View of the face of the slide with clasp raised.

The whole to be made of iron, brass, steel or any other desirable metalor composition of metals.

A A, Fig. I, the bed of instrument; B B, Fig. I, the slide moving in thebed A; C, Fig. I, the guide attached to slide and passing under the edgeof the bed, as at C, Fig. III; D, Fig. I, top of the clasp, opening orshutting by means of a thumb piece c; D, Fig. II, inside of the clasp asit turns on the Screw f; D, Fig. IV, outside of the clasp raised; C,Fig. IV, face of the Fig. III, end of the guide.

The operation of this instrument is simply this: The slide B is pressedclosely against the bed by means of the guide C and is secured atwhatever point desired by the clasp D, which arrangement of moving theslide B the whole length of the bed A without obstruction and settingthe slide B in any place on the bed A wherever desired and securing itA(the slide) in its place when set by shutting down of the clasp D.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure Letters Patent, is-

The application to the composing-stick of the guide C to prevent theslide B and the bed A from separating while adjusting thecomposing-stick, and the clasp D to secure and hold the slide B in itsplace on A when adjusted, as herein described, using for that purposethe aforesaid guide C and the clasp D, or any other substantially thesame, and which will produce the intended effect.`

O. F. GROVER.

guide; C,

Witnesses E. ROCKWELL, LORENZO HEMPSTEAD.

